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BobCAD-CAM has released the v27 series of its CAD/CAM CNC machining software for 2.5-, three-, four- and full five-axis simultaneous CNC machining. In addition to CAM machining enhancements, the v27 software features updates to CAD design capabilities for overall better performance, the company says.

The software provides a new CAD solid-action tree that enables users to modify any step of the solid creation. The solid-creation tree is fully associative to designed solid model, making editing steps to a drawn model faster and easier. New dynamic drawing capabilities enable simultaneous sketching and editing of values, while added surface and solid-creation tools enable on-the-fly extruding and modifications of solid shapes. A CAD shape library with 40 common shapes speeds the design process, and 2D Boolean features enable faster editing of intersecting 2D geometry. A “project to Z” feature enables the user to extract edges from a 3D model and flatten the geometry along the Z plane or a defined axis. The “extrude boss” and “extrude cut” features provide added flexibility to designing models, and a “shelling” feature hollows out a solid model, leaving a thin-walled solid on the remaining surfaces. Geometry scaling features have also been added.